Quarterly Review Research Articles

Evaluation of treatment outcome in extrapulmonary tuberculosis: A mixed method study from Puducherry

BackgroundExtrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is also a public health problem and involves other parts of the body other than lung. During the quarterly review meeting of State Task Force (STF), Puducherry the members raised concern about the outcome of patients referred from the medical colleges. Even though we receive 60 % feedback of initiation of treatment from the PHI but the treatment outcome of EPTB is not clear. Hence primary agenda of this research was to identify the gap in adherence to diagnostic criteria and treatment. AimTo assess the methods adopted for diagnosis of EPTB and to find out the compliance and outcome of the treatment and to identify the patient and health providers related factors that contribute to the outcome of the treatment. Material and methodStudy design: An explanatory mixed method study. Data collection: The information on methods adopted for diagnosis and category of treatment followed in EPTB was extracted from TB register and patient record sheets from the Medical College. House visits was made to trace the patients and the information related to duration of treatment and the outcome of treatment was found. Free listing was conducted to explore the reasons (facilitating and barriers) contributed to the outcome of the EPTB patients. Data analysis: Using EpiData (version 3.1, EpiData Association, Odense, Denmark), data was entered and analysed. The qualitative data was entered and analysed using Visual Anthropac (Ver_1.0.1.36; Analytic Technologies, Inc., USA) software package. ResultsMore than three-fourth (83.6%) of the patients completed extrapulmonary tuberculosis treatment. The site of EPTB emerged as significant predictor for disease outcome. The most salient facilitating factors and barriers contributed to the outcome of treatment were “periodic reminders and care by the family members” and Side effects such as giddiness, loss of sleep and appetite, discolouration of urine, gastritis, difficulty in breathing and walking, swelling of legs, weight and hair loss and myalgia” respectively. ConclusionThe study found that there is good compliance and outcome in treatment outcome. Efforts should be made to overcome the barriers to the outcome of treatment.

The “mythologies” of women at work, interrupted: feminist origins antenarratives from Harvard Business Review and Western University’s The Quarterly, Part I

Purpose The author aims to walk beside the singular privileged class of White women’s suffrage feminist origin story to (re)construct plausible feminist fragmented threads as antenarratives in the context of business management education. To accomplish this (re)assembling of threads, the author examined two North American business trade publications created and used within two business schools, Harvard University’s Harvard Business Review (HBR), established in 1922, and Western University’s The Quarterly Review of Commerce (The Quarterly), established in 1933. Design/methodology/approach The author carefully reviewed almost 4,000 articles from HBR and The Quarterly, focusing on 308 articles that addressed the experiences of complex women. With this subset of collected articles, the author highlighted overlooked details, accidents and errors, generating interest and curiosity about the emergence of these fragmented and paradoxical origins that align with Foucault's histories of errors. By grouping these narrative fragments into themes and conducting a critical discourse analysis that incorporated influences from the external environment, the author reconstructed plural feminist origins antenarratives. Findings The themes discovered, including women as consumers, explicit working women concerns, women as authors/coauthors, diversity and social justice initiatives, and women in higher education/training, are not merely descriptive observations. They are the building blocks for identifying and analyzing the power relations circulating among feminist origins antenarratives within management education circles. These antenarratives include shedding light on women working in capitalist contexts, the educational needs of business women, and men and naming (but not breaking) the “mythologies” of women at work. These findings are transformative to the understanding of plural feminist origins. Originality/value The uniqueness of this work lies in its threefold contributions: moving away from the notion of a singular feminist origin story and instead embracing the complexity of multiple, paradoxical and incomplete origins; shedding light on the spectrum of power relations – ranging from productive to oppressive – that shaped the experiences of women in two management educational circles during the first half of the 20th century; and introducing the concept of inflection points, which underscores the fluidity of knowledge.

On stare decisis in criminal law

The article considers the place of the principle of stare decisis and the effect of its key parameters in the context of modern criminal law. The author proceeds from the fact that the precedent character of criminal law positions of the highest court directly follows from the constitutional requirements of equality of all before the law and the court, describes the basis of this principle in Russian realities. The author shows the groundlessness of the explanations of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the chaotic formation of its quarterly reviews. The author proposes not to consider the explanations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation as precedent, leaving among them only the decisions of the Supreme Court regardless of their inclusion in the review of practice. Based on the research of the own telegram channel “Ugolovnaya practica VS RF” and more than 800 judicial acts for the last 3 years, it has been proved that there is a trend of precedent justice, as the courts of first instance actively motivate their decisions by elaborated positions and references to the decisions of the criminal board in specific cases.

Economics and Business Quarterly Reviews

Economics and Business Quarterly Reviews

Education Quarterly Reviews

Education Quarterly Reviews

Driving Revenues: How Makassar Raya Parking Sets Its Financial Targets

This study focuses on the financial management of parking revenues in Makassar City, particularly as it pertains to the standards set by Raya Regional Parking Company, City of Makassar. The aim is to scrutinize the established revenue targets and the actual implementation of parking tariffs, considering the Local Regulation No. 17 of 2006 and the financial relationship between central and regional governments as stipulated by Indonesian Law No. 1 of 2022. The research employs a qualitative methodology to delve into the intricacies of revenue management, compliance with parking locations, and the setting of parking tariffs. Primary and secondary data sources, including interviews with officials from Makassar Raya Regional Parking Company, City of Makassar, and other stakeholders, provide a foundation for the study. The interactive and ongoing analysis model facilitates the data reduction, presentation, and conclusion processes. Findings indicate that there is a discrepancy between the set revenue targets and actual realizations, with parking tariff enforcement demonstrating weaknesses, especially with unofficial parking attendants charging inconsistent fees. The study reveals that while annual targets are based on detailed revenue potential evaluations, quarterly reviews highlight shortcomings in achieving these goals. The study suggests the need for stricter enforcement and monitoring of parking management to meet revenue and dividend targets. Implementing an electronic parking system and incentivizing attendants to meet or exceed targets may enhance performance and revenue management. The collaboration with city government can align parking regulations with strategic revenue management goals while serving public interests.

Index 2023 Vol. 112–Nos 445–448: Studies–An Irish Quarterly Review

Index 2023 Vol. 112–Nos 445–448: Studies–An Irish Quarterly Review

John Murray’s Quarterly Review. Letters, 1807–1843. Ed. by Jonathan Cutmore

John Murray’s Quarterly Review. Letters, 1807–1843. Ed. by Jonathan Cutmore

‘Cant About Decorum’: George Thomson’s Singular Edition of Robert Burns’s ‘The Jolly Beggars’

Abstract Robert Burns’s song editor George Thomson (1757–1851) issued the poet’s cantata ‘Love and Liberty’, also known as ‘The Jolly Beggars’, for the first time with music in 1818 (a setting of Burns’s text for narrator, solo singers, choir, and piano trio). The musical score was by London theatre composer Sir Henry Bishop and the text was edited by Thomson in line with his strict policy of decency and politeness. This essay tracks Thomson’s editorial curation of Burns’s text in the context of polite ‘improvement’ and argues that while pursuing apparent ‘decorum’, Thomson’s treatment struggles to negotiate the unruliness at the centre of what is now considered one of Burns’s most important works. The article pays particular attention to the complicated publication history of this work, revealing a chronology of popular print editions in advance of Thomson’s own, as well as the notable influence of Walter Scott’s remarks on the piece in the Quarterly Review. Examining the musical context of Thomson’s ‘Jolly Beggars’ alongside the text reveals a similar aspiration for elevation and the article presents the conversation between Thomson and Bishop, from manuscript correspondence.

Theory of Ethidium Binding to DNA under Tension and Torque: Possible Role of Cruciforms at Inverted Repeat Sequences.

Celedon et al. reported an unexpectedly low slope of applied torque vs turns (or apparent torsional rigidity) for a long DNA subject to 0.8 pN tension and modest negative torques (up to approximately -5 pN nm) in 3.4 × 10-9 M ethidium (J. Phys. Chem. B 2010, 114, 16929-16935). Extrusion of inverted repeat sequences to create cruciforms with anomalously large association constants for binding 4 ethidiums to the cruciform arms is investigated as a possible explanation for this observation and also for its compatibility with other observations of Celedon et al. The equilibrium between the linear main chain and cruciform states of an inverted repeat sequence under the prevailing tension, torque, and ethidium concentration is treated by first computing the free energy per bp of the linear main chain. This is done for a complex model, wherein every bp in the linear main chain participates in both the recently reviewed cooperative two-state a ⇔ b equilibrium (Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 2021, 54, e5, 1-25) and in ethidium binding with a modest relative preference for either the a- or b-state. Plausible assumptions are made concerning the relative populations of the cruciform and linear main chain states of an inverted repeat, and also the relative populations of cruciform states with and without 4 bound ethidiums in the presence of tension, torque, and 3.4 × 10-9 M ethidium. Besides a large drop in slope (or apparent torsional rigidity) from 10-9 to 10-8 M ethidium, this theory also predicts maxima between 6.4 × 10-8 and 2.0 × 10-7 M ethidium, a region where no measurements were made. Overall agreement between theoretical and experimental values of the slope (or apparent torsional rigidity), and also the number of negative turns due to bound ethidium at zero torque, is fairly good for all of the ethidium concentrations studied by Celedon et al., provided that there is a modest preference for binding to the b-state. When there is a modest preference for binding to the a-state, the theory significantly underestimates experimental values at the higher ethidium concentrations, likely ruling out that possibility.

:For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family

Previous articleNext article No AccessHistory, Philosophy, and Ethics of BiologyFor Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family. By Jill Hunting. Norman (Oklahoma): University of Oklahoma Press. $21.95 (paper). vii + 244 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-0-8061-7661-1. 2022.David E. FastovskyDavid E. FastovskyGeosciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 98, Number 2June 2023 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725278 For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education

American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education

Duet on the Theme of “Everything’s Alright” from Jesus Christ Superstar

Research Article| June 01 2023 Duet on the Theme of “Everything’s Alright” from Jesus Christ Superstar Miriam Petty, Miriam Petty Miriam J. Petty is an associate professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and associate dean for academic programs in Northwestern’s Graduate School. She writes and teaches about race, genre, stardom, and performance. Her award-winning book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood explores the limits and possibilities of black stardom during the “golden age” of mainstream U.S. cinema. Petty’s work has appeared in Genders, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, and as a co-chair of SCMS’ Committee on Antiracism, Equity, and Diversity. Petty is currently at work on Madea’s Baby, Tyler’s Maybe, a monograph charting the industrial and cultural appeals of Tyler Perry’s films and plays, from 1998 to 2019. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Joshua Chambers-Letson Joshua Chambers-Letson Joshua Chambers-Letson is a professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the 2019 Erroll Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from ATHE); co-editor of José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown with Tavia Nyong’o and of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital with Christine Moke; and series co-editor of NYU Press’s Sexual Cultures series with Tavia Nyong’o and Ann Pellegrini. JCL is currently at work on a monograph about the art of queer love and loss. They are presently the 2022-2023 Thinker in Residence with the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.15 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Miriam Petty, Joshua Chambers-Letson; Duet on the Theme of “Everything’s Alright” from Jesus Christ Superstar. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 15–22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.15 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search I have been thinking about our strange, shared attachment to the rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar (both stage musical and its film adaptation). Especially our attachments to the characters of Judas and Mary Magdalene, and their exchange in the song “Everything’s Alright.” In the 1971 Broadway production, the role of Judas was performed by two Black actors: Carl Anderson (who also played the role in the film) and Broadway legend Ben Vereen. Mary Magdalene was embodied on stage and screen by iconic Japanese American performer and 1970s disco hitmaker Yvonne Elliman. We both grew up listening to the musical, though its telling with our respective orientations in performance studies and film and media studies that your preferred version was the original motion picture soundtrack (1973) and mine was the Broadway cast recording (1971). But what we both seemed to share, as children, was an attachment to the complex blackness of Anderson... You do not currently have access to this content.

Front Matter

Next article FreeFront MatterPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 98, Number 2June 2023 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725881 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 40, no. 1/2

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 40, no. 1/2.

Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform by Terry Scarborough

Reviewed by: Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform by Terry Scarborough Michelle Allen-Emerson (bio) Terry Scarborough. Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform. Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2021. Pp. xxvii + 165. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-911454-96-0 (hb). In "The Two Dog-Shows," appearing in All the Year Round in August, 1862, the anonymous author seizes on the remarkable contrast between the pampered pooches at the Islington dog show and the abandoned creatures at the relatively new institution, the Lost Dogs Home in Holloway: "At the Islington dog-show all was prosperity. Here, all is adversity. There, the exhibited animals were highly valued, and had all their lives been well fed, well housed, carefully watched. Here, for the most part, the poor things had been half-starved and houseless" ("Two Dog-Shows" 495). The article, while it genuinely admires the charitable work of the Lost Dogs Home, seems to have something else on its mind–the social and class divisions of human life which were a marked feature of the nineteenth-century city. As explained in the recent book The Invention of the Modern Dog: Breed and Blood in Victorian Britain (Worboys et al.), this figurative use of animals to engage in discourses about human social relations was quite common in the nineteenth century, a symptom of the erosion of boundaries between animal and human that had begun the century before. Terry Scarborough takes this idea as his starting assumption in Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals and Sanitary Reform. Scarborough explores the rhetorical function of animals in Dickens with a specific focus on their role in shaping attitudes towards poverty and those problems closely associated with poverty in the early and mid-nineteenth-century city–filth and disease. Using sanitary reform as a convenient way to describe that nexus of poverty, filth, and disease, Scarborough argues that Dickens effectively created sympathy for marginalized characters by drawing on both sanitary and animal welfare discourses. As Scarborough explains in the context of Dickens's sketch "The Seven Dials," Dickens could manipulate emotional responses to suffering animals "to express the [End Page 112] dilemmas in which the urban poor often became ensnared" (25). In an introduction and five chapters, Scarborough unfolds the rhetorical analysis, looking closely at a few of Dickens's early sketches and four major novels. The decision not to consider Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend is made in the interest of drawing attention to novels less commonly discussed in the context of sanitary reform and of engaging with "the more experimental stages of Dickens's attitudes toward the subject" (x). In a pattern that Scarborough adheres to throughout the book, Chapter 1 opens with a close reading of an article from a general-interest periodical, in which an overt discussion of animal life becomes an occasion for reflections on human poverty and the filthy urban environment. The article Scarborough uses in the first chapter, "List of the Animals in the Gardens of the Zoological Society," from the Quarterly Review, 1836, frames his discussion of several of Dickens's early sketches. In close readings of "Gin Shops," "A Little Talk about Spring, and the Sweeps," and other pieces, Scarborough traces the way Dickens deploys zoological discourses "to tap the conscience […] of the swiftly growing reading public" (11). Scarborough's idea is that in a changing context of animal-human relations, sympathy for one group could be used to develop sympathy for the other. So, for instance, in the case of the chimney-sweeps, Dickens likens the kindly feelings towards sweeps generated by fanciful legends and lore to the kindly (and self-interested) feelings towards animals effected by theories of the transmigration of souls. Scarborough identifies a similar dynamic in Oliver Twist, the focus of Chapter 2. The animal in question is Bill Sikes's hard-used but loyal dog Bull's-eye, who for Scarborough functions as a mediating figure between wary nineteenth-century readers and the socially unacceptable figure of Nancy. Both are "loyal subjects dedicated to the abusive master" (54), but as Scarborough argues, the sympathy that Dickens hopes to cultivate for Nancy can be felt...

:The Species–Area Relationship: Theory and Application. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation

Previous articleNext article No AccessEcologyThe Species–Area Relationship: Theory and Application. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation. Edited by Thomas J. Matthews, Kostas A. Triantis, and Robert J. Whittaker. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $120.00 (hardcover); $44.99 (paper). xx + 481 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9781108477079 (hc); 9781108701877 (pb); 9781108569422 (eb). 2021.Kimberly J. Cook and Joseph R. BurgerKimberly J. CookBiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Search for more articles by this author and Joseph R. BurgerBiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 98, Number 1March 2023 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/723926 Views: 12Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Mr. Kemal Questions God

Mr. Kemal Questions God Asnia Asim (bio) Keywords poetry, Asnia Asim, aging, God, Allah, marriage Maybe it was a reaction to old age; it could be thathe resented retired life. But the ex-neurologist,amateur collector of oriental coins, had recently taken to scolding his poor wife for all that prayingunder her breath, Mashallah-this and Inshallah-that.Last week, even as she tripped over the bathroom mat and almost broke her hip, he heard herthanking Allah for steadying her faltering step.Enough was enough. “So what’s the point of this God?” he flat out asked her one day.“There is a thing called the Big Bang, you know.”She sipped her tea in awe. “And by the way, there are no djinns in the attic.” His smile grew bitter.“And lightning won’t strike if I touch the Quranwith my unwashed hands. Look—” he picked up the book, his wife about to cry. But his gentle heartinterfered; he set down the holy text and stormed outof the house. It was not a complete surprise; Mrs. Kemal knew her man. He blasphemedmore arduously during the Monsoon, when his jointsflamed up in pain. The world brought itself to him in numbers. He adored patterns. The books in his studywere immaculately lined, and he took tea at exactly six amand eight pm. Neighbors had informed her about Friday, [End Page 13] when the good doctor had challenged the mosque clericto prove piety in the Prophet’s bedding a dozen women.But unlike her relatives, Mrs. Kemal was not disheartened. She was one of those who know they know moreby knowing less. When she touched a plant or lookeddeeply at a shawl it quickened with feeling— even the blank television, a phone blinking for chargecould move her to tears. The world was a sacred objectthat required no doing on her part, no proving. When she touched her head to the prayer mat, she foundin her imperfection a wholeness—. Unlike Mr. Kemal,she wasn’t afraid of paradoxes; they helped her sense the wound beneath her husband’s discontent. So, at nightwhen he finally took off his glasses, carefully arranged themon top of his book, when long umbelling snores wove out of his breath, she recited verses of protection and gentlyblew them on his bare head. From the opened windowshe stared at the sky and wondered about the Big Bang. Clouds came so near, lightning bent, dominion of heatat its end: jasmine, red mangoes, smells of the bazaar—the whole city flooding in to greet Mr. and Mrs. Kemal. [End Page 14] Asnia Asim asnia asim’s debut chapbook Quarantine with Rilke (Finishing Line Press) was listed by Ms. Magazine as “one of the most exciting and necessary collections published late last year and forthcoming in 2022.” Her poems have received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her latest work can be found in Apogee Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, CALYX, Typehouse, and Cream City Review, among others. She is the recipient of the University of Chicago’s Humanities Fellowship and Brandeis University’s Allan Slifka Award. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc

:On Life: Cells, Genes, and the Evolution of Complexity

Previous articleNext article No AccessCell and Molecular BiologyOn Life: Cells, Genes, and the Evolution of Complexity. By Franklin M. Harold. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $29.95. xvii + 201 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-760454-0. 2022.Jeremy G. Wideman and Joshua S. HoskinsonJeremy G. WidemanCenter for Mechanisms of Evolution, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for more articles by this author and Joshua S. HoskinsonCenter for Mechanisms of Evolution, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 98, Number 1March 2023 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/723913 Views: 15Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Baking using oleogels

Baking using oleogels